Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology, 1732-1891
Author | : Nelson Horatio Darton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nelson Horatio Darton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gene Dattel |
Publisher | : Government Institutes |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442210192 |
Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most central social issues. In telling detail Mr. Dattel shows why the vastly underappreciated story of cotton is a key to understanding America's rise to economic power. When cotton production exploded to satiate the nineteenth-century textile industry's enormous appetite, it became the first truly complex global business and thereby a major driving force in U.S. territorial expansion and sectional economic integration. It propelled New York City to commercial preeminence and fostered independent trade between Europe and the United States, providing export capital for the new nation to gain its financial "sea legs" in the world economy. Without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict at home. Mr. Dattel's skillful historical analysis identifies the commercial forces that cotton unleashed and the pervasive nature of racial antipathy it produced. This is a story that has never been told in quite the same way before, related here with the authority of a historian with a profound knowledge of the history of international finance. With 23 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Geological Survey (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1222 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Bills, Legislative |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles S. Aiken |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421436124 |
Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Originally published in 1998. "The plantation," writes Charles Aiken, "is among the most misunderstood institutions of American history. The demise of the plantation has been pronounced many times, but the large industrial farms survive as significant parts of, not just the South's, but the nation's agriculture."In this sweeping historical and geographical account, Aiken traces the development of the Southern cotton plantation since the Civil War—from the emergence of tenancy after 1865, through its decline during the Depression, to the post-World War Two development of the large industrial farm. Tracing the geographical changes in plantation agriculture and the plantation regions after 1865, Aiken shows how the altered landscape of the South has led many to the false conclusion that the plantation has vanished. In fact, he explains, while certain regions of the South have reverted to other uses, the cotton plantation survives in a form that is, in many ways, remarkably similar to that of its antebellum predecessors. Aiken also describes the evolving relationship of African-Americans to the cotton plantation during the thirteen decades of economic, social, and political changes from Reconstruction through the War on Poverty—including the impact of alterations in plantation agriculture and the mass migration of Southern blacks to the urban North during the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with more than 130 maps and photographs (many original and many from FSA photographers), The Cotton Plantation South is a vivid and colorful account of landscape, geography, race, politics, and civil rights as they relate to one of America's most enduring and familiar institutions.